Update on the Oregon Revised Statutes CopyFight

by: Karen Storin Linitz - May 5th, 2008

From BoingBoing comes the news that the dispute we blogged about last month between Oregon and would-be net publishers (or, as they call themselves, “archivists”) Justia and Public.Resource.Org continues. Oregon insists on its copyright, and has offered the publishers a “public license.” To no avail – BoingBoing quotes Karl Olson of the firm Levy, Ram & Olson LLP, Attorneys, as responding that

My clients respectfully cannot agree to the Public License. First, and most fundamentally, it would require them to acknowledge that portions of the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) are protected by copyright, and they respectfully but vigorously disagree that portions of the ORS are protected by copyright.